Helping at a community garden!

These tasks will help us create a beautiful space for people to grow food, learn English and relax in!

Brighton

Location
Queen Victoria Statue, Victoria Gardens, 1 Marlborough Pl,
Brighton
BN1 1UB
Date and time
18:15 - 20:00
Tuesday, 16th of June 2026
Who this task will support
The Migrant English Project Community Garden
The MEP Community Garden is a well-established community project that has been supporting asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants living in Sussex since 2003. It hosts group-based activities and teach gardening skills while providing a space where students can learn about growing and cooking healthy food and produces organic vegetables โ€“ either to eat collectively at MEP or for students to take home. The project helps people learn new vocabulary and builds confidence in new skills, and the space provides a critical site of mental wellbeing through fresh air, exercise and socialising.

The MEP Multiculture English Project Garden Project has been teaching gardening, horticultural and English language skills to asylum seekers since 2010, by providing a space to put this knowledge into action.

โ“ What is the Task?

We will be:

  • Landscaping (building raised beds and retaining walls),
  • Moving compost up to the garden (wheelbarrow),
  • Doing other gardening tasks digging, levelling soil, weeding
  • Have fun together :-)

๐Ÿ“ Where?

  • If running/walking, meet at 6:15pm @ Queens Victoria Statue (1 Marlborough Pl, Brighton BN1 1UB) to leave soon after ;
  • If biking, meet me at from 6:15pm @ Queens Victoria Statue (1 Marlborough Pl, Brighton BN1 1UB) to leave soon after and ride alongside the runners;
  • Regardless where you come from, it would be fun you join us at the task from 18:45 for volunteering together at the Roedale Valley Allotments, in Golf Drive, Brighton, BN1 7AA.

๐Ÿงค Anything Else I Need to Know?

  • Bring garden gloves - I will bring some :-),
  • Tools and spare gloves will be provided by our task owner Will.

Happy GoodGym-ing

Who's going

  • STEFANIA ROSSO

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Location
Queen Victoria Statue, Victoria Gardens, 1 Marlborough Pl,
Brighton
BN1 1UB
Date and time
18:15 - 20:00
Tuesday, 16th of June 2026
Who this task will support
The Migrant English Project Community Garden
The MEP Community Garden is a well-established community project that has been supporting asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants living in Sussex since 2003. It hosts group-based activities and teach gardening skills while providing a space where students can learn about growing and cooking healthy food and produces organic vegetables โ€“ either to eat collectively at MEP or for students to take home. The project helps people learn new vocabulary and builds confidence in new skills, and the space provides a critical site of mental wellbeing through fresh air, exercise and socialising.

Queen Victoria Statue, Victoria Gardens, 1 Marlborough Pl,
Brighton
BN1 1UB

STEFANIA ROSSO
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